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These four traffic elements are education, enforcement, engineering and economics.
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These four traffic elements are education, enforcement, engineering and economics.
NATIONAL security is not just about the military and the police securing the seat of power against the enemies of the state. More than that, it is about having food, jobs, education, health, infrastructure, water, electricity, markets, information, technology, copyrights, public order, public health and safety for the majority of our people, if not for all individuals.
THE present distressing peace and order situation in the country has a historical antecedent from President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino’s regime and the other post-Marcos administrations. President Rodrigo R. Duterte merely inherited the intractable problem.
HUMAN influences and global climate change have put the Amazon rainforest that has survived over millions of years and even through ice ages at risk of large-scale dieback—with major worldwide consequences for its capability as a global carbon dioxide sink.
OUTGOING Prime Minister Cesar Virata, obviously oblivious of what was happening in Malacañang, formally turned over to Vice President Salvador “Doy” Laurel the Office of the Prime Minister in a simple ceremony at the Executive House at 1 p.m. on March 25, 1986.
The dramatic moment of the Marcos presidency came just past 9 a.m. on February 24, 1986, after he finished addressing the nation over the government television station, MBS-4, announcing the imposition of a state of emergency.
EXACTLY 33 years ago this week, the so-called 1986 Edsa Revolution that catapulted the housewife, Mrs. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, to power remains today not only a highway of horrendous traffic but a long avenue of questions, regrets, economic opportunism and a source of hatred, vengeance and disunity among Filipinos.
TODAY’S headline-grabbing stories on money, inflation, debt, deficit-spending and borrowing, among others, have something to do with economics, a complex science with almost infinite variables affecting people from all walks of life and other organisms, both tangible and intangible, particularly its two important branches: macroeconomics and microeconomics.
WHILE the United States could field over 300,000 aircraft, Germany and Japan combined have less than 200,000. On the naval front, the US had about 350 destroyers compared to Japan’s 63, while on the land-war front, the US had over 70,000 tanks compared to less than 45,000 for Germany.
WHILE China is swiftly expanding its military capabilities, the
United States still far outspends China when it comes to two important metrics:
total spending and spending as a percent of gross domestic product or GDP, said
Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser, in his best-selling book Crouching
Tiger.
‘IMAGINARY though the island chain may be, it is a metaphor that nonetheless weighed heavily on the mind of one of China’s popular strategist, Admiral Liu Huaqing, and it continues to be an obsession with Chinese military planners to this day.
THIS question brings us to a discussion with Prof. John Joseph Mearsheimer in Peter Navarro’s best-selling book, Crouching Tiger. Recall that Mearsheimer insists that over time, because of the dynamics of great-power politics, China must inevitably seek to be the regional hegemon in Asia as a matter of both self-defense and survival.
CHINA will be a “status quo” power interested only in prosperous economic engagement, a peaceful rise and the opportunity to become a responsible stakeholder in the international world order.
CHINA’s greatest contribution to the American defeat in Vietnam “was its deterrence value,” said Peter Navarro, an economics professor who heads President Donald J. Trump’s White House Trade Council, in his best-selling book, Crouching Tiger, published by Prometheus Books.
Was it Japan, France, Germany, Russia, Great Britain or the United States?
THE most significant investments that people, firms and governments can make in the changing nature of work are in enhancing human capital, the World Bank said in its projection development report for this year.
I am referring to the irrepressible John Bolton, the US National Security adviser, who has threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it goes ahead with
prosecutions against Americans.
THE Philippine Insurance Commission (PIC) will continue at 9 a.m. on Thursday its administrative hearing on the complaint filed by stakeholders against the influential Association of International Shipping Lines Inc. (AISL) for alleged violation of the insurance code.
ANOTHER inflation-driven multimillion-peso irregularity hit port stakeholders after the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) issued in March 2016 the Vehicle Booking System (VBS) to ease traffic following the horrendous port congestion at the Manila piers in 2014 and 2015, which was the result of a Manila City ordinance.
IT was during his early law-enforcement career when studious Sen. Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson initially planted the seeds of endearment after he was assigned to the PC Metropolitan Command (Metrocom) Intelligence and Security Group (MISG) from 1971 to 1986; rose through the ranks, becoming lieutenant colonel and served at the PC-INP Anti-Carnapping Task Force as its commander from 1986 to1988.
I am referring to Sen. Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson Sr., whose endearing quality as a real public servant brims the records of the country’s contemporary history and captured the imaginations of the millennial and his generations. With God’s will, he’s the man to watch in the political scene in the coming years.
THE Philippine Ports Authority or PPA, a government-owned and -controlled corporation with special charter under Presidential Decree 857, now appears to be the perpetrator of a grave injustice being committed against port stakeholders.
A group of port stakeholders has exposed the highly questionable multimillion-peso per container insurance collection by the Association of International Shipping Lines Inc. (AISL) and its attendant inflationary effect on the Philippine economy.
ACTING on persistent reports of multibillion-peso economic losses as a result of warrantless fees and other charges collected by unscrupulous agents of international shipping lines, Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez has called the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to look into their tax liabilities.
JOHAN Rockström, resilience scientist and director-designate of the leading Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, expressed relief at the closing of the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Katowice, Poland. Both were key participants at the Katowice Summit.
ANOTHER serious problem port stakeholders encounter is the highly questionable imposition by international shipping lines of multimillion-peso deposits on containers and the very slow processes of getting a refund for such deposits.
WITH the advent of the world trade, foreign commercial vessels bringing in and taking out cargoes worth billions of pesos for the market are not paying enough taxes and have subjected local port stakeholders to various abuses because of lack of regulatory power on the part of the Philippine government.
AS robotics starts to spread, the success of countries in the robot era will depend in part on culture and how readily people accept robots into their lives, said Alex Ross, former US State Department advisor on innovation, in his best-selling book, The Industries of the Future.
JAPAN is home to the longest-living citizens on Earth and the biggest elderly population of any country—and it’s not getting any younger, said Alec Ross, one of America’s leading experts on innovation.
THE Senate Committee on Public Services, chaired by Sen. Grace Poe, may only cause costly delay if it keeps looking into the national security issue and the integrity of the selection process of the country’s much-needed third telecom provider involving a Chinese firm.
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